Dan Carter and Richie McCaw will be re-united in Crusaders colours this season
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The Crusaders will win the final Super 14 - which opens on Friday - closing out another chapter for this rickety competition in the style their fans are accustomed to, according to Chris Rattue in the New Zealand Herald.
"The old firm has been reunited - Richie McCaw and Dan Carter are the finest double act in New Zealand sport since Mark Todd and Charisma.
"Having predicted last year that the Crusaders would not retain the title without Carter and under new coach Todd Blackadder - or make that without the old coach Robbie Deans - it was a shock to see how close they came. Their top-four finish showed just how resilient they are.
"The Bulls, I figured, were the 2009 favourites, yet despite winning, and winning well in the final against the flatter-to-deceiving Chiefs, the mob from Pretoria were not as convincing as they might have been through the season. The Bulls would need to lift their game to beat the Carter-driven Crusaders."
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